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Letters Patent No. 76,115, lated llm'ch 31, 1858.

IMFROVEMENT 1N HYDROGARBON-BURNERS.

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Be it known that I, JAMES STRATTON, of the city of Philadelphia, in the State oi' Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Hydrocarbon-Burner; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a its full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction'and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, nia-king a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical central section of the said improved burner, and

Figure 2 a horizontal sectionvot' Athe lower end of the samo- A Like letters ofreference indicating the same parts when i'n both figures.

Letters Patent, dated the 26th day of March, 1866, were granted to me und assignees for. a certain hydrocarbon-burner, in which the burner proper is annular, and the vertical supply-pipe passes down through its centre, and connects with the under side of the said burner; but the'jets, being vertical, cast a shadow downward, and also require a chimney to prevent smoke.

, The object of my present improvement is to obviate these objections, and also to aliord an equally good I burner at much less cost. Y

My invention consists substantially, as hereafter described, in so constructing the burner proper or lowerend of the vertical supply-pipe, that the jets will proceed directly from the same, in horizontal radial directions. n Referring to the drawings, lAis the burner proper; B, the vertical supply-pipe vC, a horizontalipipeleading to any suitable reservoir of the hydrocarbon, and D a stopfvalve. The pipe C-has a branch, c', into which the upper end of the vertical pipe B is screwed. The vertical pipe B is made of brass, has abore of about a sixteenth of an inch in diameter, and extendsvertioally downward about three inches, where it is vattached by a. screw-collar,. b', to the upper end of the burner proper, A, which is-about three-fourths of an inch long` and ofthe same boreas pipe B, but is made of steelJ and has its lower end closed, (see iig. l.) Around this lower` end there is a series of very minuto horizontal holes, a a, at equal distances apart on the outside, and each hole leading there-fron; directly toward the centre of the'bore, through the sides of the pipe, and opening therein on aline with the inside bottom of the said pipe A, (sce iig. 2.).

One end, c, ofthe reservoir-pipe C is enlarged, and is screw-eut on its inner side, in the-usual mannerQso that it can be packed withany suitable straining or filtering-material. and attached to the usual reservoir. The opposite end of pipe C, extends au `inch or two beyond its branch e', is screw-cut around its -i'nuer side, and has within an accurately-tting scre\v'-stem, D, which has its inner end made conicnlfso that it will [it accurately in a corresponding enlargement, made a little beyond the branch c of pipe (Land thus form a. stopralve, which can be readily opened or closed, as occasion may require.

- peraton.l The pipe C being connected with asuitably elevated reservoir of the hydrocarbon, the screw-stem D is rotated backward sufficiently to allow the fluid to pass freely into pipeB and burner A, when n. lighted match isnppl'ied, and consequently the Huid ignited at the jet-holes av', causing a.` clear, bright flame to radiate from' each of the said holes, (Sec iig. 2,) and when the burnerA and pipe Bbecolne heated,the size ofthe flame and brillianey of the light will be greatly increased, and without producing smoke` or casting a shadow beneath the burner.

This burner is simple and inexpensive oi' construction, nndis'also most easilykept in order.

What I clnim'as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The downward-projecting straight burner A, its lower end so perforated that the jets will dow in horizontal radial directions, in combination withthe vertical pipe B, the said parts being construct-ed and arranged to operate together, substantially as and for the purpose described.

JAMES STRATTON.

Witnesses:

BENJ. MonIsoN, WM. II. Morrison. 

